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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Trump signs an executive order to block all transactions with ByteDance and Tencent starting Sept. 20, just 5 days after Microsoft's deadline to acquire TikTok — Microsoft is currently in talks to acquire the company — President Trump has signed a new executive order …
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| Bloomberg: |
Tencent stock plunges more than 10%, shedding $45B+ of market value, after Trump's announcement of a US ban with the company starting next month — - U.S. companies from Apple to Walmart rely on Tencent's WeChat — Banning WeChat, the world's most-used messaging app … | Financial Times: |
As it pursues TikTok, a look at how Microsoft laid roots in China in the 1990s and nurtured China's future tech leaders, including ByteDance's Zhang Yiming — The US tech company hopes its connections will help it navigate storm safely — More than two decades of efforts by Microsoft … | BuzzFeed News: |
Sources: at all-hands, Zuckerberg says a ban on TikTok would set “a really bad long-term precedent”, arguing any benefit for Facebook would be short-term — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees Thursday that banning TikTok in the United States would set “a really bad long-term precedent.”
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Microsoft is pursuing a deal to buy all of TikTok's global operations, including those in India and Europe — US group explores whether it can add regions including India and Europe to deal for video app's US arm — Microsoft is chasing a deal to buy all of TikTok's global business …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple confirms cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia violate App Store guidelines and will not work on iOS, as Apple cannot review each game offered — New cloud gaming services from Google and Microsoft won't work on iOS — Cloud gaming is shaping up to have a big moment …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Facebook slams Apple's App Store policies, launches Facebook Gaming on iOS without the app's mini games feature to pass the App Store's strict approval policies — Facebook is not happy with the months of rejections it has faced — Facebook is joining Microsoft in condemning Apple's App Store policies today.| BuzzFeed News: |
Staffers ask Zuckerberg what would happen if Trump uses Facebook to dispute the election; some staff say they have evidence of favoritism for right-wing pages — Facebook employees collected evidence showing the company is giving right-wing pages preferential treatment when it comes to misinformation.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Intel is investigating a leak of 20 GB of documents, some confidential, possibly from an internal source accessing its Resource and Design Center — Leak confirmed to be authentic. Many files are marked “confidential” or “restricted secret.” — US chipmaker Intel is investigating …
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| Bloomberg: |
Facebook and YouTube removed a video where Trump claims kids are “virtually immune” to COVID-19; Twitter banned @teamtrump's account until it removed the video — Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. blocked a video shared by accounts linked to U.S. President Donald Trump for violating … | Uber: |
Uber Q2: revenue of $2.2B, down 29% YoY, gross bookings of $10.2B, down 35%, net loss of $1.8B; mobility gross bookings fell 73% but delivery grew 113% YoY — “Our team continues to move at Uber speed to respond to the pandemic's impact on our communities and on our business …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Over the past year, scientists have renamed 27 human genes because Microsoft's Excel misread their names as dates and changed the formatting — Sometimes it's easier to rewrite genetics than update Excel — There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Internal Android development document suggests Google is working on builds for a Pixel 5a, foldable Pixel, and at least two other first-party devices — As we try to make sense of Google's 2020 Pixel lineup, an internal Android document reviewed by 9to5Google gives us our first glimpse of what to expect next year.| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
TikTok launches its first TV app, called More on TikTok, on Amazon Fire TV devices, featuring curated video playlists and compilations from its mobile app — More on TikTok will be free and view-only at launch — TikTok is launching its first TV app, called “More on TikTok,” on Amazon Fire TV devices today (via Business Insider).| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
T-Mobile reports total Q2 revenue of $17.7B, up 30.5% YoY, adding 1.25M customers to reach 98.3M total, claims to be the second largest US wireless provider — After finalizing its merger with Sprint in the second quarter and posting solid customer growth, T-Mobile says it has officially surpassed AT&T in the wireless market.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researcher says security vulnerabilities in satellite-based Internet services, some known for over ten years, are threatening the safety of ships and planes — Attacks that worked 10 years ago have only gotten worse despite growing use. — More than a decade has passed since researchers …
Tweets: @brianweeden, @mtoecker, and @sonicwall
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Analysis of hundreds of pages of documents from Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google released by the House antitrust committee and what they reveal — - Following last week's grilling of the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google parent company Alphabet, the House Judiciary Committee released … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple iMac 27-inch (2020) hands-on: 1080p webcam is long overdue and its smart features, like face detection, are great; nano texture is good but pricey at $500 — Plus, some impressions of the nano texture screen option — I've had a review unit of the new 27-inch iMac for about two days now … | Financial Times: |
Intercontinental Exchange has agreed to buy mortgage software company Ellie Mae for $11B from Thoma Bravo, which acquired it last year at a $3.7B valuation — Acquisition of Ellie Mae for $11bn moves NYSE-owner deeper into home loan technology — New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange …
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